Takamine GB30ce Acoustic Bass

Stage-worthy with solid-top construction, soft Venetian-style cutaway and Takamine electronics at a very affordable price.

The GB30CE features a solid spruce top and mahogany back and sides produces a rich, resonant sound. Its slim mahogany neck and 16-radius rosewood fingerboard provide great feel and playability, while the onboard Takamine TK-40B preamp system gives you a built-in tuner, three-band EQ and gain controls, mid-shift control, bass-boost switch and EQ bypass switch for the ultimate in versatility and sound quality.

Alvarez AJ80ce-12 Artist Series 12-String Acoustic Guitar

Big, blonde and beautiful. The AJ80 Jumbo is a powerhouse guitar and incredible value.

The LR Baggs StagePro Element is a side-mounted preamp/EQ that offers battery access and a full chromatic tuner that is hidden beneath the control panel to maintain a clean, classy look. The three band EQ with phase inversion and Garrett Null notch filter controls deliver warm, pristine sound even under the most challenging conditions.

Artist Series is now “The Award Winning Artist Series” – winning competitions and receiving rave reviews in the States, Europe and around the world. It’s a truly designed line of guitars that stands tall and sounds sweet in the solid top guitar market.

The term “solid top” of course refers to the soundboard of an acoustic guitar being made of solid wood, rather than being laminated. However, just because the top is solid, it does not necessarily mean the sound automatically benefits from this feature. The tone of the instrument only improves significantly when the whole guitar is built correctly to really release the energy a solid soundboard can generate. Artist Series is built to do exactly this.

Each model is designed to get the best out if its components, and for them to work together to produce a tone and player experience, rarely found in affordable instruments. These components include our FST2M bracing system, bi-level bridge, real bone nut and great quality tone woods.

FSTM is a forward shifted X brace design. Both the X braces and asymmetric tone bars are scalloped. Moving the system forward allows for a larger soundboard, which is optimized with a solid maple bridge plate for both strength and energy.

The sound is warm, open and powerful, and both the treble and bass registers are clearly present and balanced in relation to each other. These guitars feel right and are exciting to play and responsive. Dig in and they shout right back at you, treat them gently and they whisper and respond instantly to the lightest strum or pick.

The solid ‘A’ grade Sitka spruce and cedar tops are hand selected from quarter-sawn wood. This ensures consistent quality, and its no secret better guitars are made from better wood. Our tops not only look great but they are stiff and strong and finely grained.

New Artist Series guitars look stunning and come in a huge variety of shapes, colors and wood choices from standard OM and Dreadnought models to more specialist instruments such as Baritone and Parlor. Each shape is also available in a left-handed version.

Alvarez MGA66e Masterworks Grand Auditorium Acoustic Guitar

The Alvarez MGA66E Masterworks Grand Auditorium Acoustic-Electric Guitar is a professional-grade instrument. It features all solid woods and a high level of refinement from the top bracing to the body finish. Key appointments include the Alvarez SYS650 preamp, solid African mahogany for the body, abalone and mother-of-pearl inlays, real bone nut and saddle, and die-cast gold tuners with ebony buttons. This Masterworks folk guitar comes with a deluxe polyfoam case.

The Alvarez SYS650 designed by B-BandThis is a dual pickup system with one undersaddle pickup and a transducer pickup placed under the soundboard. A blend control lets you fine tune the balance between the two.

FEATURES

Series: Alvarez Masterworks

Top Wood: Solid African Mahogany

Back and Sides: Wood Solid African Mahogany

Shape: Grand Auditorium

Neck: One-piece mahogany, 50/50 semigloss finish

Bracing System: FST2M - Forward Shifted, Scalloped X

Bridge: Bi-Level rosewood

Inlays: Paua abalone and mother-of-pearl

Purfling: 1.5mm paua abalone

Fingerboard: Rosewood with 12th abalone fret inlay

Headstock: Plate rosewood

Nut and Saddle: Real bone

Tuner: Premium die-cast gold with ebony buttons

Binding: Acacia koa

Bridge Pins: Ebony

Strings: D'Addario EXP

Pickup / EQ: SYS650

Accessory: Deluxe polyfoam case (USA only)

SYS650 designed by B-Band

Fully chromatic, precision tuner

Backlit LCD screen

Three bands of rotary EQ

Notch control that can be used to attenuate feedback or to shape your sound

Alvarez RD26S-AGP Regent Series Acoustic Guitar Pack

Too often, students of the guitar, no matter what age, have trouble getting motivated because entry level guitars are either difficult to play, don’t sound very good, or don’t have the draw that marquis guitars do; they don’t have that addictive quality that makes you want to pick the guitar up every day and play for hours.

The Alvarez Regent Series is designed as an entry level guitar that will keep new players focused and excited about their instrument from day one. They’re classic looking guitars that encompass many of the features and design elements that our high end instruments have, like this Bi level bridge, and a rosewood bridge and fingerboard. The models are finished in a high gloss and come in either Sitka or Rosewood outfits.

Usually laminated guitars sound very thin and have difficulty projecting, but the Alvarez Regent series has had a lot of attention paid to good construction and components, and are very open and sweet sounding while maintaining a very affordable price.

Some great models to introduce yourself to are the RD26 Dreadnought, the RD27CE, which is a cutaway with a fantastic B-Band SYS250 EQ and tuner installed, and the RC26HCE, A hybrid classical nylon string guitar, but with a steel string style neck that’s a bit more comfortable for fretting and chord stretches.

That’s what the Regent Series means to Alvarez, an entire line-up that’s got the fresh student in mind, but built so they can evolve with the player well into their veteran years.